Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION (BUDGET MEASURES) AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 127, 1985 - SECT 74

74. (1) Where -

   (a)  a person, not being a person who would, if the person had lodged a
        claim for a spouse carer's pension under Part III of the Social
        Security Act 1947 and the provisions of that Act relating to spouse
        carer's pension had continued in operation, have become qualified to
        receive such a pension, becomes qualified to receive a carer's pension
        under Part III of that Act after the commencement of this section and
        before 1 February 1986; and

   (b)  the person would have become qualified to receive that carer's pension
        on an earlier day if a claim for that pension had been lodged on that
        earlier day, the claim shall be taken to have been lodged on that
        earlier day.

(2) A person who was, immediately before 1 November 1985, qualified to receive
a spouse carer's pension under Part III of the Social Security Act 1947 is, on
and after that date, qualified to receive, subject to that Act, a carer's
pension under Part III of that Act.